Bimaristan

A bimaristan (Persian: بيمارستان, romanized: bīmārestān; Arabic: بِيْمَارِسْتَان, romanized: bīmāristān) or simply maristan,, known in Arabic also as dar al-shifa ("house of healing"; darüşşifa in Turkish) is a hospital in the historic Islamic world. Its origins can be traced back to Sassanian Empire prior to the Muslim conquest of Persia.

The word “bimaristan” is still used in the dialect of Persian spoken in Iran for hospitals.

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